Data recorder and verifier

ABSTRACT

A data recorder for punching document cards which are of the type having three tiers into which encoded data may be punched, the system including a keyboard on which characters are entered serially, a magnetostrictive delay line constituting a storage device for storing encoded data from the keyboard in such serial form, and circuitry for actuating punches from spaced characters in the storage device so that a plurality of aligned columns in the plurality of tiers may be punched simultaneously. The data recorder includes printing mechanism for printing the data in corresponding tiers, and the same machine includes circuitry for verifying a punched document card utilizing the same keyboard as that used for punching.

United States Patent 1191 Bean et a1.

1451 Oct. 1 1973 DATA RECORDER AND VERIFIER [73] Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY.

[22] Filed: Jan. 28, 1971 {21] Appl. No.: 110,583

Related U.S. Application Data [62] Division of Ser. No. 845,817,July 29, 1969, Pat. No.

2,080,192 5/1937 Youngberg 234/34 2,298,416 10/1942 Ritzert 2,654,432 10/1953 Doty 2,625,225 1/ 1953 Wockenfuss 234/34 Primary Examiner-J. M. Meister Attorney-Keith T. Bleuer et al.

[5 7] ABSTRACT A data recorder for punching document cards which are of the type having three tiers into which encoded data may be punched, the system including a keyboard on which characters are entered serially, a magnetostrictive delay line constituting a storage device for storing encoded data from the keyboard in such 3,642,197. serial form, and circuitry for actuating punches from spaced characters in the storage device so that a plu- "i521" 11.s.c1....; 232734, 234/48 ttllty of aligned columns in the plurality of tiers may 51 Int. Cl. G06k 1/14 be Pllllehed Simultaneously The data recorder [58] Field of Search 234/34, 33, 4sellldes Printing mechanism fer Priming the date ill responding tiers, and the same machine includes cir- 56] References Cited cuitry for verifying a punched document card utilizing UNITED STATES PATENTS the same keyboard as that used for punching.

3,596,831 8/1971 Parmer 234/34 6 Claims, 32 Drawing Figures 2,328,654 9/1943 Lake 234/34 7'0 PRINT .PRINT LINE I AREA PRINT LINEZ 7 PR N T L NE 3 5 f A I08 0 HO 3 o o t 11 2 TI ER l a o o 1 l b 33 P U N C 3 I04 TIER 2 z I02 AR EA L W A 3 ,3 m5 TIER 3 l L; 9:

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1. A machine for recording encoded data on a record medium and comprising: a keyboard on which successive characters may be keyed, a plurality of punches for punching the record medium so as to record encoded characters thereon, circuitry including encoding means connecting said keyboard and said punches so as to punch a plurality of openings through the recording medium for each of the characters keyed, means for reading the encoded characters as punched in said record medium, and means for comparing the characters as so read by said reading means with a character keyed on said keyboard after said record medium has been so read for determining the correctness of the encoded character punched on the record medium, said record medium constituting a document card having a plurality of parallel data recording columns, said machine including a notcher for notching the card, and means under the control of said comparing means so as to render said notcher operative when the character keyed on said keyboard is identical with the character that is read.
 2. A machine for operating on an elongate record medium having a succession of encoded data recording columns a first portion or series of which is disposed in a first tier extending lengthwise of the record medium and one or more additional portions or series of which are disposed in a tier or tiers extending parallel with respect to the first tier on the record medium, a read station for reading columns of data from each of said plurality of tiers at substantially the same time with relative movement between said record medium in its lengthwise direction and said read station, a storage device for storing the encoded data as read by said read station, a keyboard on which successive characters may be keyed, encoding means in connection with said keyboard for providing encoded characters on the actuation of said keyboard keys, means for withdrawing encoded characters from said storage device in a different order than read and in the same order as and corresponding to successive characters keyed on the keyboard, and means for comparing individual characters as so withdrawn from said storage device with individual successive characters keyed on said keyboard as encoded by said encoding means for determining the correctness of the encoded characters in said data recording columns on said recoRd medium.
 3. A machine as set forth in claim 2, said record medium constituting a document card which has been punched with said data recording columns in a plurality of tiers with said data recording columns of adjacent tiers being in substantial alignment.
 4. A machine as set forth in claim 3 and including an entry register connected with said encoding means for recording and storing the characters as encoded by said encoding means under the control of said keyboard, said comparing means being effective for comparing each of the characters as so derived from said storage means with a character contained in said entry register on a keying of said keyboard.
 5. A machine as set forth in claim 4, said storage device including a magnetostrictive delay line and circuitry connecting the ends of the line so that data as read by said read station may circulate through the delay line.
 6. A machine as set forth in claim 4 and including a plurality of punches for punching said document card so as to record the encoded characters therein in said aligned columns of said plurality of tiers, means connecting said entry register and storage device for entering the encoded characters for punching into said storage device, and means effectively connecting said storage device and said punches so as to cause the punches to record the encoded characters in said document card in said columns and tiers. 